Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-18
NEWS AND NOTES.


from knots.
Speaking English with the French &C
cent is the society caper In Washington.
A girl may be like sugar for two rea-
sons. She may be sweet and she may be full
of grit.
George Gould is trying to buy the
yacht Hildegarde, formerly owned by the
Prince of Wales.
California has the only beet root sugar
factory In America. 1t is located at AlVarado,
and is moderately successful.
As it takes three weeks to perform the
marriage ceremony in Japan, that country lie
no place for runaway couples.
Dakota has met the free pass question
by approprlating $500 year for her Supreme
court judges travelling expenses.
San Francisco is to have one of the
finest bands In the country, and an agent is in
New York engaging 100 musicians.
Professor Richard a. Proctor, the as
tronomer, will remove from st. Joseph, Mo-, to
his orange grove, near Palatka, Fla.
Miss Eleanor Hooper is the name of a
young lady who is astonishing all musical
Brooklyn by her wonderful violin playing.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries
the idea of female emancipation so far as to
demand that half the police force in larGe cities
consist OF women.
Jefferson Davis is the authority for the
statement that the Johnston statue is ''the best
equestrian statue OF man and horse that is
to be found in any country"
John Stewart of Conway, Mass, some
time ago promised the Prohibtionists that If
his expected heir should be gil he would
vote against granting licenses. The new conner
was girl, and the PrOhibitionists carried the
town last week . majority Of one.
OF late the Atlantic cables have been
Nv U n pOOEUlt
their physicians who were travelling abroad.
The other day New York doctor cabled 10 a
young American physician who has recently
located in Paris for advice ina very important
case.
The New York State Assembly has
passed a law by which the heirs of person
killed in a railroad accident may recover up to
$4,000, instead of $4,000 as at present. For a
long time 1t has been cheaper for railroads In
that state to xii imam outright than simply
to MAIN him.
W. J. Seaman, the Irish minstrel, says
he was lately offered $4,000 to lend his name to
advertising a tooth paste. The propristors
wanted him to certify that he had been given
the recipe by some countess and had consented
to sell 1t for the benefit of mankind.
Only one ex-President survives, but
there are still living at least nine women who
hav been mistress of the White House. These
include the widows of Presidents Tyler, POLK,
! Grant and Garfield; MIS-. Harriet Lane johnson,
niece of President Buchanan Mrs. McElroy,
sister of President Arthur, and Mrs. Patterson,
daughter of President Johnson
Farmers in some sections of Pennsyl-
vania maintain the fertility of their sells by ap-
plying 100 bushels of slaked lime to the acre
once in five years 1t is said that fields that
have been subjected to this treatment for the
past 100 years are as productive now as when
the exp riment was first tried. This applica-
ton depends for its value much upon the
| original character of the soil.
A young lady named Shafer, who was
the proud possessor of lUxuriant head of hair
reaching almost to her knees, was found last
Tuesday at her home in PIttsburg, Pa, tnsen-
sible, with her air cut close to her head. When
that while alone that afternoon she was as
saulted by an unknown peddler, who over
powered her and then fOJ ced her 10 inhaIe
ChlorofOrm Several days ago man called at
the house and offered tue young lady SlO Tor
her hair, but she refused to part with her feau-
tiful tresses. The peddler who assaulted her
this afternoon is believed to be the same party.
a sensation of peculisr nature is re
ported from Warren, twenty miles southeast OF
Wabash, Ind. The enterpTising citizens OF
that place recently drilled for gas, and at
This was the frat oil found in the Trenton rock
In Indiana, ard the well was pronounced better
than oil well No. at Lima. A Lima man was
employed TO shoot the well. The result was a
disappointment, as water flowed instead OF oil.
1t is now alleged that the Lima man is In the
employ of the Standard on Company, and that
the Standard folks do not wish oil territory de-
veloped at present west of Lima. 1t is be ieYed
that the Lima man shot the well at point
ABOVE the Oil-bearing strata. Another well
is to be put down OF once and the territory fully
developed.